The Development of Hanwen Regular Script and Its Influence on Italic Typography

摘要

China experienced great changes in the early 20th century. When the foreign invaders brought the war, they also brought the advanced scientific and cultural thoughts and opened the prelude of the New Culture Movement. However, westernization is not the right way to save the country. At that time, the Nanjing National Government and people of insight realized the importance of the spirit of the Chinese nation. In 1934, the government published The Essentials of the New Life Movement in Nanchang, which started the New Life Movement to carry forward the spirit of the Chinese nation. As the representative of nationalism and the inherent culture, the Hanwen regular script has been shouldering a very important national mission in mainland China until 1949. This paper analyzes the font characteristics of Hanwen regular script and its influence on the modern regular script, and reflects on the deficiency of the Chinese character font design system in the Republic of China era and its influence on the current modern font design of Chinese characters.